"The physicist who states a law of nature……" — Hilary Putnam
"The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world, even if he has to speak of numbers, vectors, tensors, state-functions, or whatever to make the abstraction."
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Hilary Putnam
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